Norman's New Orleans and Environs / Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time

by Benjamin Moore Norman

• Olden Time, [184]
• Old Ursuline Convent, [103]
• Opelousas Prairie, [39]
  • hospitality of the inhabitants, [40]
• Opposition to founding New Orleans, [59]
• Orange trees introduced, [20]
  • destroyed by frost in 1748, ib.
• O'Reilly, the Spanish governor, [23]
  • his tyrannical conduct, ib.
  • succeeded by Unzoga, [24]
• Orleans Cotton Press, [152]
  • Theatre, [176]
• Orphan Asylums, their excellence, [110]

• Paintings, National Gallery of, [169]
  • individual collections of, [170]
• Paving of streets first began, [67]
• Pensacola taken by the French, [19]
• People's Lyceum, [167]
• Physic, Law and Divinity, their progress, [79]
• Pine woodlands, [30]
• Place d'Armes, [182]
• Planing Mill, steam, [151]
• Plaquemine, [32]
• Planters' Hotel, [143]
• Ponce de Leon, [9]
• Pontchartrain Rail-road, [192]
• Population in 1732, [20]
  • in 1788, [25]
  • in 1803, [26]
  • of New Orleans in 1723, [59]
    • in 1785, [62]
    • in 1803, [70]
    • in 1810, [66]
    • in 1844, [71]
    • comparative, ib.
• Police of New Orleans, [78]
• Post Office, [90]
• Pottery may be made of Louisiana clay, [57]
• Poydras Female Orphan Asylum, [113]
  • street Market, [136]
• Prairies of the State, [30]
  • particularly described, ib.
• Prairie, Attakapas, [33], [38]
  • Opelousas, [39]
  • Bellevue, [40]
• Prairie, Calcasieu, [40]
• Prairie, Sabine, [40]
• Press of New Orleans, [173]
• Presbyterian Church, First, [100]
  • Second, [101]
• Project of supplying wholesome water, [148]
• Prospects of New Orleans, [82]
• Prosperity of trade in 1810, [66]
• Protestant Cemetery, [108]
• Public buildings, [86]
  • libraries much wanted, [79]
  • property transferred to the United States, [65]
• Public School system, [163]
  • how introduced, ib.
• Public School Lyceum, [166]
  • Squares, [181]

• Race Courses, [195]
• Raft in Red River, [36]
• Rail-road, Pontchartrain, [192]
  • Carrolton, [191]
  • Mexican Gulf, [193]
• Reading Room, Merchants', [161]
  • New Orleans, [162]
• Red River deposit, its nature, [34]
  • raft, [36]
• Residence of Governor Bienville, [189]
• Road of Bayou St. John, [194]
• Rope Walks, [151]

• Sabine Prairies, [40]
• Salvado, last Spanish governor, [26]
• Samaritan Charitable Association, [114]
• Sauville, the Governor, dies, [17]
• Saw Mills, steam, [151]
• School, Convent, [44]
  • Sisters of Charity, ib.
• School, Ursuline Nuns', [44]
• Schools, the Public, ib.
  • Municipality Work-House, [130]
  • Hall, [127]
• Second Presbyterian Church, [101]
  • Lafourche, ib.
• Sheep of Louisiana, very superior, [56]
• Shell Road, [192]
• Silk may be produced in abundance, [53]
• Society in New Orleans, [73]
• Soil of Louisiana, [29]
• State of Louisiana described, [28]
  • House, [91]
• State Legislature to be removed, [92]
• Steamboat first arrives from Pittsburgh, [27]
  • extent of present navigation, [83]
• Steamboats, early, their trips, [80]
  • Saw Mills, ib.
• Steam Planing Mill, [151]
• Streets and sidewalks first paved, [67]
• St. Augustine Church, [96]
  • Cemetery, [109]
• St. Patrick's do, [95]
• St. Paul's Church, [99]
• St. Antoine's, or Mortuary Chapel, [97]
• St. Charles Exchange Hotel, [137]
• St. Louis Exchange Hotel, [143]
• St. Mary's Market, [137]
• (St. Louis,) City Exchange, [157]
• St. Charles Theatre, [178]
• St. Lorenzo, treaty of, [25]
• St. Bernard bay occupied by La Salle, [15]
  • crops their present average, ib.
• Sugar introduced by the Jesuits in 1751, [21]
  • refinery, [151]
• Sugar lands, [46]
• Suggestion to sugar planters, [46]
• Surface of Louisiana, [29]

• Tax upon chimneys to light New Orleans, [64]
• Teche, excellent lands upon its borders, [33]
• Territory of Louisiana, its boundaries, [7]
  • its discovery by de Soto, [10]
  • its immense extent, [8]
  • transferred to Spain in 1763, [22]
• Theatre American 1823, [67]
  • Orleans, [176]
  • St. Charles, [178]
• "The Coast," its extent and luxuriance, [31]
• Third Municipality Work-house, [133]
• Tobacco Cuba, cultivated, [54]
  • from Cuba, fine specimens of seed, ib.
  • raised at Natchitoches, ib.
  • worm how to prevent it, [55]
• Transfer of Louisiana to Spain, [22]
• Transfer of Louisiana to the United States in 1803, [26]
• Travelling Routes, [201]
• Tyrannical conduct of O'Reilly, [23]

• United States Marine Hospital, [125]
  • Barracks, [86]
  • Branch Bank, established in 1805, [66]
  • Mint, [88]
• University of Louisiana, see note, [43]
• Unzoga succeeds O'Reilly as governor, [24]
  • succeeded by Galvez, ib.
• Ursuline Convent, the old, [103]
• Ursuline Chapel, [98]
  • nuns arrived in 1730, [60]
  • erect a new convent in 1824, [104]

• Vaudreuil marquis de, [20]
• Variety of the population of New Orleans, [73]
• Vegetable Market, [136]
• Verandah, [141]
• View of New Orleans from various points, [69]
• Vine, cultivation of the, [55]

• War between France and Spain, [19]
  • England and France, in 1756, [21]
  • do and Spain, in 1779, [24]
  • do and the United States, [27]
• Watchmen first established in 1792, [64]
• Water, a project to supply it without charge, [148]
• Water Works, supply water from the Mississippi, [70]
  • a description of them, [146]
• Washington Square, [181]
• Wesleyan Chapel, [103]
• Western Company, chartered in 1717, [17]
  • fail, in 1732, [20]
• West Feliciana, its excellent soil, [32]
• Wilkinson, Gen., [26]
• Woods, Col. crosses the Mississippi, [13]
• Work-house of the Second Municipality, [130]
  • Third do, [133]

• Yellow fever first introduced in 1769, [62]
• Yellow Fever, opinions of its transmissibility, [121]
  • No. of cases in Hospital from 1822, to 1844, [120]
• Young Men's, Howard Association, 115 Literary do, [167]

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